SBG actually looks down on a lot of Kali. Their footwork is generally flat too.

Ok. Let em look down all they want. Doesn't bother me A BIT. The phillipines are a knife society. They know how to use em. End of story, IMO.

Also, are you referring to kali's footwork or SBG?

I find kali's footwork to be extremely dynamic and useful, but the again, I'm not learning from some idiot who claims to be a master instructor for arnis/kombaton, but in reality is most likely just someone who got their probational black belt (I can think of at least one instructor in particular) in arnis and skipped out, leaving their training (and certification) to expire.

So maybe the higher quality of the training I get lends towards a higher level of skill.

The sad truth is that because of Remy's push to make Arnis/FMA a reality for america (sometimes for the wrong reasons), that there are a great many underqualified instructors for FMA out there.

If you have seen Jim Carey knife defence; you would know how shockingly realistic his imitation of many karate/akido/tkd really is.

I look at krav maga's knife defence and i cant help but applaud.

But, how did such ackward methods of knife defence come about?

Why is it so common? Why do they do it like....jim Carey.

My guess would be that it is a smaller portion of the curriculum, preformed most of the time as static drills (with perhaps the exception of aikido, i remember some unscripted drills) and no real free sparring.

I studied some escrima in high school, but we really didnt do any armed vs unarmed drills.

I play around with it once in a while with my students, simply just to do something different once in a while, but allways with the following disclaimer, "if someone has a knife give them what they want, otherwise you will get cut."

If you want to learn knife defense id go learn from someone who specializes in it, not from a generalist. That STAB program looks interesting.

I think people want learn what they see in demos instead of something that works but looks ugly.

No. Everybody wants to believe that everybody else believes that so they can tout how new and different their blade defense garbage is.

I for one would like to see a demo of the relevant part of STAB, which is how they close the gap against the guy with the knife. If that works, than it works. If it doesn't work, then it's bullshitting its way through half the problem.

I for one would like to see a demo of the relevant part of STAB, which is how they close the gap against the guy with the knife. If that works, than it works. If it doesn't work, then it's bullshitting its way through half the problem.